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...return was a resounding rejection of the conservative, free- enterprise philosophy that had kept Seaga in power for eight years and made him Ronald Reagan's closest ally in the Caribbean. Seaga, who consistently trailed Manley in the polls, had hoped to win back voters by promising to expand social welfare programs and build upon Jamaica's economic stability. He warned that a Manley victory would plunge the country back into socialist chaos...
Vukonich and John Weisbrod each scored in the second period to expand the Harvard lead heading into the final 20 minutes of the game...
...illegal aliens across its 2,000-mile border with Mexico, the U.S. has resorted not only to armed patrols but also to fences, closed-circuit television monitors and electronic sensors. Now it is making a last-ditch effort -- literally. For one thing, the Immigration and Naturalization Service will expand its force of border patrolmen by a third, to 4,300, by year's end. On top of that, the INS announced last week that it plans to dig a $2 million ditch along a four-mile stretch of border near San Diego, where some 300,000 illegal aliens were apprehended...
This is the second time that ART has been awarded an NEA Challenge grant. The first was for $250,000, also on a three-to-one matching basis, and was used to expand and develop ART's marketing and fundraising efforts and to increase the artisitic scope of the company during the three year period from July 1, 1980, to June 30, 1983. The current grant period began September 1, 1985, and concludes July 31, 1989. NEA Challenge grants cover a period of no less than three years. No organization can receive a Challenge grant during the period covered...
...page statement calls for a "Presidential Initiative on Information Policy" that would limit the government's right to restrict the publication of scientific research and would expand public access to information on executive decisions...